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This text tries to explain how women and sexual discussion combine in liberation period novel. In later Japanese colonial period, Joseon men who flew in due to compulsory military service and draft did not come back after liberation in August, 1945, or even if they did come back, there were many cases that they were in the situation that they deprived their economic ability. In such situation, women had to be in charge of not only themselves but also the livelihood of family. Since that was the period educational quotient of women were absolutely vulnerable, they couldn’t find proper job. There were many cases that most of women fall to poor strata, thus dependence on prostitution also gradually increased. Culture and system of US military government brought the change of life of women and sexual discussion. The voice to free women from house chores and social contribution got higher with inflow of American democracy. On the other hand Joseon men still kept their feudal values about women`s sex. In society of the time, worry about many women sell their chastity due to ‘liberation wind’ and ‘Yankee wind’, and its negative awareness were overflowing. Since modernization of women focused with sexual deviation, women who cry for gender equality considered as a target of negation, thus the phenomenon that construction of new Joseon considered as an exclusive property of men happened. During the liberation period, various discussions such as free women, gender equality, good wife and wise mother were reproduced and died out, appearance of pressured women started to make their appearance through this. Some male writers exposed that dichotomous structure of ‘corrupted women/chaste women’ is a figment of masculine authority system. The liberation period was the period that reason about existence of women by competing negative side of sexual politics and subversive side of sexual revolution.